Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Oct 2005 14:51 UTC
"You probably don't visit /var/log every day, or take care to ensure its contents - program log files - are safe. Most people see log files as a record of events: something that has to do with the past rather than something with an impact on the present or the future. In reality, effective log file management is critical for high system availability."
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2005-06-30
To my memory, metalog (an alternative to syslogd and syslog-ng) can rotate its own logs by itself. Of course, it only covers the system log, but I believe that is enough for desktop users. These users are rarely running services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix/Qmail/Sendmail, etc.